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Originally Posted by twinkle555

WOW didnt see that coming at all!! Im glad she followed her heart and ended up happy. On to #3!

I didn't see it coming either! Daughters are ALL a little bit Unpredictable, but my middle one takes it to a whole other level!!

Daughter #3s Story

Like her sisters she too had heard all the same stories, been to football games, sports camps etc. She had spent weekends with both Opinionated and Unpredictable on campus in various dorm rooms. We toured medium and large universities during that week, but something was different with Daughter #3. She didn’t seem to be all that interested in the tours or even discussing what she liked or didn’t like. What she did seem interested in (and had researched ahead of time) were the exact locations and hours of every MALL we passed along the way. During that trip, much shopping was done and very little was decided about applying to college. No, we didn’t do the official tour at the “University of Red Brick Sidewalks and Towering Oaks”. She told me that since she had been there so many times there seemed little point and anyway she had been on the University website doing her own “research”.

Now a word about Daughter #3. There is no other word to describe her except Determined. This is the kid who knows what she wants and makes plans that the Allies in WWII would have be proud of to accomplish it. She always has a goal and a plan. She NEVER goes into anything unprepared or without all the information available at her command. So, it’s Fall of 2005 and Determined and her parents are meeting with the College guidance counselor (bless those folks, I really don’t know how they cope) to discuss where she intends to apply. We (meaning Mom, Dad and the counselor) discuss the schools that Determined has visited and what we (mostly me) thought of each. Determined is strangely quiet during this discussion. Then the counselor turns to Determined and asks what she thinks. And here it comes…. Determined has, for lack of a better word, determined that she is apply to one school and one school only and it’s of course the “University of Red Brick Sidewalks and Towering Oaks”. Well, Dad and I are extremely pleased, but a bit perplexed. If you’ll remember the University did away with early decision after the year Opinionated applied so won’t Determined need to apply to a few “safety” schools in case she’s not admitted?? “Well, Yes” said the counselor “ That’s usually what we recommend, but in Determined’s case there really is no reason to apply anywhere else if she’s sure that’s where she wants to go. She’s near the top of her class, taken many advanced classes, made great grades and her SAT scores are way above the average, so there’s no risk she won’t get in.” At this point Determined smiles her enigmatic smile and I know that this is EXACTLY what she’s been planning all along and that our college visit road trip was nothing but a shopping expedition!

This time I didn’t even have to conjure up a Greek letter tee. On the way home, Determined announced that she was definitely going to rush and in addition that she would either be a member of ABC or XYZ sorority come fall!